Zoom links and Mailchimp

"I added a Zoom meeting link into the text box of a Mailchimp email campaign as a hyperlink. It looks identical to my Zoom invitation link from Zoom itself. The link I added is here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/....   When I sent the email out, my subscribers could not access the link because when they clicked on it, it had changed to this:  http://%20https//us02web.zoom.us/j/...  There are extra/different numbers and letters (in red) at the beginning of the link that appeared once the subscriber clicked on the link. I can't remove the additions in my Mailchimp campaign because they are not there until after the fact."

Have any of you had this experience? How did you address it?